Hunt v. Canada ( Commissioner of the Correctional Service )
T-2139-92
Teitelbaum J.
14/5/93
5 pp.
Application for mandamus, certiorari directing respondent to return applicant to Alberta to serve sentence, and quashing decision to transfer applicant to Kingston Penitentiary for Women -- Alleging violation of Charter, ss. 7, 12, 15, 24, 28 rights -- As applicant on full parole, now seeking declaration Charter, s. 15 rights infringed by transfer i.e. sexual discrimination as only one federal female penitentiary -- Fact applicant Aboriginal further exacerbating violation of Charter rights -- No decision required on issues of certiorari and mandamus as now moot -- No useful purpose served in making declaration -- Applicant's own misconduct in provincial institutions main reason for transfer -- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, being Part I of the Constitution Act, 1982, Schedule B, Canada Act 1982, 1982, c. 11 (U.K.) [R.S.C., 1985, Appendix II, No. 44], ss. 7, 12, 15, 24, 28.